Fans of Syfy’s Haven know Eric Balfour. The skeevy yet oddly attractive owner of The Grey Gull!
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Can we talk about the fact that she also brought the Dixie Chicks with her! I can’t believe it has been 13 years since they got taken down over trashing George W. Considering the shit being said about Beyonce, what they said back them was just so minor.
I’m not saying it’s an objectively bad gameplay element or world. It’s just not one I particularly enjoy playing in. I wouldn’t expect it to be a dating simulator, but I was hoping for stories that were a bit more varied than “the guys are mostly friends with each other and the women are mostly friends with each…
Ehhh, I’ve been in a relationship with my husband for 13 years, married 7, that’s enough time not to find my husbands exes threatening. I’ve actually started hanging out with one ex frequently - we have kids the same age & have friends in common. Plus, she’s smart & interesting, which I appreciate in friends.
Ha, that’s not totally inaccurate. I thought Carrie was so fucking small minded to break up with a guy for being bi, but then my SO is also bi. If you ever watched the L Word, the incestuous diagram of former luvahs that Alice makes is pretty spot on for our friend group. I’m pregnant, most of the close friends we…
Me and bf have occasional threesomes with his ex, and we’re all friends on fb. Does that count?
Huh. I was friends with my SO long before we began dating, so many of our exes are long-term friends of both of ours. Our friend group was too incestuous to get weird about exes.
So basically Chrissy Teigen is being an adult about her husband’s past.
While I don’t think this is a huge deal (a lot bigger games out there and a lot more blatantly problematic gender and sexuality presentation issues), it kind of baffles me that he would program it this way. The obvious first way would just have both genders have an equal percentage chance to be straight, gay, or bi.…
That’s true. I wish he’d been more upfront about what he was selling, though. The relationships in the game sounded like one of the coolest parts, but ended up being the most annoying (in my case, not so much because of LGB issues as because of the male colonists all being super sexually aggressive in a way that made…
The “all women are up for sleeping with other women” thing isn’t inclusiveness. It’s just straight male fantasy.
I missed the part in the article where the dev was arrested and all his assets impounded, his business shut down and his bank accounts seized?
He doesn’t “need to,” but his choice not to can certainly be criticized. He doesn’t have any obligation, but people are free to share their opinions on his creation. That’s how that works.
“Could it not be more likely that programming all possibilities that can occur in life might be a lot more cumbersome/costly/require more time/etc. than programming the most prevalent occurrences?”
The funny thing about this controversy is that it shouldn’t have been controversial. The original article is mildly critical of the worldview informing the game’s code. At worst, it fosters an interesting conversation about how we can get past some outdated assumptions (and raises a few points that the dev might want…
Actually, it would be quite a bit simpler to allow all combinations of men and women to be attracted to each other, and to have men and women pursue each other in the same patterns. He had to specifically code separate behaviors for the two sexes (a man is attracted to this, a woman is attracted to that) when it would…
Quentin Tarantino is an anagram of Antique Tannin Rot.
Why is straight up commentary labeled “Thought Police”? Obviously, someone did an investigation and presented the results. I disagree with your characterization.